Clarence Archibald SULLIVAN [871]

   Another name for Clarence was Archie SULLIVAN.

  General Notes:

Clarence Archibald served in the Lighthorse Regiment in WW1. He served as Archibald Sullivan and his grandfather D Sullivan of Newstead was given as his next of kin. His service number was 2215.

Archibald enlisted on 15 July 1915 and embarked on 9 March 1916 via Tel-El-Kebir and Alexandria via the ship HMAT Kutana to England. He arrived at Etaples on 9 September 1916 and served in the 1st to the 2nd Anzac Light Horse Regiment. He was admitted to hospital in October with bronchitis and pleurisy and was transferred from the field hospital to Boulogne and then to England. In October he was in Dartford and Weymouth. On 23 January 1917 he was at Wareham, England and was charged with being outside the camp area without a pass. In March he was in Hurdcott and on 4 April 1917 he was AWL from 1pm on 3 April to 10.50 am on 4 April. On the 12th April 1917 he assaulted an MP and was given 14 days detention, then on 30 July 1917, at the Candahar Bks he was AWL again from 4pm 22 July to 8.20pm on 24 July 1917.

On the 18th of December 1917 he returned to France via Southampton to reinforce the 2nd Anzac Light Horse and arrived at his unit on 21 December 1917. On the 18th January 1918 he was admitted to hospital with [supp. mid. ear] and was discharged back to his unit on 23 January 1918 where he was later attached to the 49th Division and the 9th Division. On 26 April 1918 he was admitted to hospital after suffering a penetrating gunshot wound to the forehead which fractured his skull. He was returned to hospital to England via Boulogne to the London General Hospital.

On the 20th of July 1918 he was once again AWL. According to his army records, he was sent a telegram advising that he must report to the depot on 19 July 1918, but he failed to report until the 24th of July. This charge was dismissed, possibly due to the fact that he was about to return to Australia as a result of his wound. He embarked from England on 31 July 1918 on the Malta.

Policeman

Archie was a great football player and played 9 games for St Kilda. He also trained champion Road and Track bicycle rider Charlie Shillito in his early career. In 1925, Archie was a mounted policeman at Dandenong and was on duty when Charlie Shillito won a cycle race and a photo of his shaking hands with Shillito appears in a newspaper article in the Melbourne Sporting Globe
unfortunately this article is of very poor quality and much of it is not readable
Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) Wednesday 19 August 1925 Page 6 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18482482

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Military: World War 1 SERN 2215, 1914-1918.

Clarence married Verna Doreen WILLIAMS [1149] [MRIN: 341], daughter of Henry WILLIAMS [1150] and Mary Ann BUTLER [1151], in 1926 in , Victoria, Australia.¹⁶⁴⁶ (Verna Doreen WILLIAMS [1149] was born in 1909, died on 7 Jan 1965 in Fitzroy, Vic, Australia ¹⁶⁴⁹ and was buried in Jan 1965 in Burwood, Vic, Australia.)